From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 20 14:56:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B55B37B404 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp150.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.150]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0KN0Ks76068; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010120094705.B12408@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:56:00 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Donald J . Maddox" Subject: Re: pcm status Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Sean Kelly , Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Jan-01 Donald J . Maddox wrote: > This is directly traceable to entropy harvesting by /dev/*random. > I know it's not an option if you need to use ssh, but not loading > random.ko will fix the sound problems when moving the mouse or > typing. It doesn't fix the 'hwptr went backwards' messages, though. The entropy stuff only kicks in on the keyboard and mouse. It can't really help the hwptr backwards stuff, as that is due to the additional overhead in the current interrupt path as well as asynchronous handling of interrupts. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message